techstyled - 9:29 pm on Feb 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

I've known of the "mini-site" strategy for years. However, as I said, my marketing department came to me with the idea of creating a "Link Scheme" directly linked to main site. I asked for expert advice and all I got was, "Google will ban you, those Link sites won't rank, etc.".

Actually I think I'm repeating myself and I think you were just trying to make a bit of an OT slam. NVM.